almost equals Celtic). “You have some competition tonight,” I said to Tool Moan as we

left.

“I know,” he said. Later, back in the hotel room, I realized I’d misheard. His name was

Tout le Monde (equals everybody in French) . . .

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Kathleen Ossip is the author of The Cold War, which was named one of Publishers Weekly’s best books of 2011; The Search Engine, selected by Derek Walcott for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize; and Cinephrastics, a chapbook of movie poems. Her new book, The Do-Over, is forthcoming.

“Tool Moan” was originally published in Cry Baby (TLR Early Fall 2013).